Cihta

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[–] Cihta 7 points 1 year ago

Interesting take. I grew up Catholic, Sunday school yada yada. That guilt.. that is some fucked up shit to put into a child.

But as you put it, Christians are far more insufferable and a significant reason why I changed my faith.

And please spare me how the Catholic Church is somehow king of pedo. Every Christian sect is rife with them. If you care about your kids stay away from them all. You can give them a better handle on ethics and mortality with some basic cartoons. And they'll probably enjoy them rather than groan at the stupid outdated biblical shit you want to make them learn.

Yeah, I'm biased but i stand by that statement.

[–] Cihta 16 points 1 year ago

Some here posted about outdated systems on Walgreens. But yes, CVS is in the same boat. We are talking zotac mini-pcs from 15yrs ago. Factor in craziness that has been escalating forever with schedule 2 drugs and how insurance is always an issue among other things. Everyone who has ever stood in line watching this shitshow knows.

I feel very sorry for the workers. I wouldn't last a day. I've wanted to just jump over and hug my pharmacist many times for putting up with everything and still going out of their way to help me.

Fuck both of those corps.. You can't even shop there. Everything needs a membership to get the 2 for 1 offer which is on everything and yeah I could go on.

Unfortunately not many options. Online stuff hasn't been working out too well either.

[–] Cihta 3 points 1 year ago

No no no you misunderstood me.

I was being honest, I know nothing of rust. I have however used python in embedded systems with positive results. The product didn't make it but for other reasons.

Funny you mention java, that's sorta what I'm stuck in but not like you think. Beyond the fact that it's a bloated nightmare.

I'm just a low-level programmer at heart but I have bills to pay. The rust stuff was all just a joke.. i don't know it but maybe i should. Thanks for the info.

Saying anymore about what I do is just super embarrassing but i promise i meant no ill will. Excuse my frustration, I'm locked into a proprietary system i have no control over. You would laugh your ass off if you saw it. Anyway, i meant no offense, have a good night!

[–] Cihta 2 points 1 year ago

That's the number you can call me on.

When you call, ask for Mike Jones!

It would be a blast to see the memes if the speakers name was that. I was happy to see the ref. That was a long time ago and fairly localized. I don't even know what happened to that guy.

Those simple times of 9-layer paint and causing pain in the turning lane

[–] Cihta 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hah thanks for clarifying. I was joking too and it's a shame I couldn't post the results.

Though I admit i don't know anything about rust. I'm sure I'd like it better than the proprietary garbage i use now that just gets converted to ASM / PLC code in the end. But I can't skip the middle man. I'm not gonna try but probably 30mins for me to "write" the above.

Besides, how do you make money if I can code something in an hour as opposed to 2 days?

[–] Cihta 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Cihta 3 points 1 year ago

This is how my cats look at me when the food bowl runs empty. Could be just a polite request for food, could be sizing up what the most edible parts of me are. I don't know but i play it safe and refill.

As it applies to this, I don't know. But that cat is on about something

[–] Cihta 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wow that's a very exhausting language. I dropped your code into an online rust to asm converter and it actually wasn't more! I did try to post it for fun but lemmy kept messing up the code block. Oh well, wasn't that amusing anyway!

[–] Cihta 5 points 1 year ago

Yep this is me right now. I'm being screamed at on a project I could have finished long ago but now they are throwing deadlines out and I spend more time coming up with excuses than just actually doing it.

I know how it looks from the outside, i seem incompetent. Sucks because it's easy but I'm skimming lemmy and seeing what movies are on rather than working.

Drugs will kick in soon though and i can get back to it. Fun.

[–] Cihta 3 points 1 year ago

These days.. maybe you are right. When i was fresh out into the world I lived paycheck to paycheck. Rent comes due, I have to try and stretch it as i have a few days grace and i need things like food to live and gas to get to work.

Get my check, deposit it, give rent check later that day. Guess which cleared first? I was short 12 cents and got hit with $80 in fees (inflation adjusted it's nearly twice that now) and had to pay rent via money order for 6 months. 12 cents! They could have just shorted it that amount and I'd have been happy to give them a quarter I had laying around. But rather it just made my next month more miserable.

I do think things are better now and there are plenty of overdraft protection methods in place and who uses checks anyway but fact is they had my deposit and did the withdrawal first.

I'm genuinely glad you've never had to deal with such a situation and yes $35 isn't bad. But the thing is - fuck banks. They will find every opportunity to hurt the less fortunate.

Ironically I still bank with them, or what they became. I'm on my 4th account now because their fraud protection is pretty good. So there's a positive aspect.

[–] Cihta 1 points 1 year ago

I feel you. My Nokia N900 and later N9 were great solutions. All my sms, aim, icq, msn etc was all seamless along with instant load time. Then came things like line, FB messenger, Whatsapp. It was just how to have everything in one place.

RCS is probably the best option at this point if Imessage could use it. Then i wouldn't need other apps for those friends to get decent quality.

Sad to learn signal wasn't the standalone service I thought it was. I might sound old but really don't care about sticker packs. I do care about quality shares without another app.

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